Re: [PATCH v2] mm: fix null dev in dma_pool_create()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Nov 13 2012 - 19:47:55 EST


On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:01:34 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Xi Wang wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/mm/dmapool.c b/mm/dmapool.c
> > index c5ab33b..bf7f8f0 100644
> > --- a/mm/dmapool.c
> > +++ b/mm/dmapool.c
> > @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ struct dma_pool *dma_pool_create(const char *name, struct device *dev,
> > {
> > struct dma_pool *retval;
> > size_t allocation;
> > + int node;
> >
> > if (align == 0) {
> > align = 1;
> > @@ -159,7 +160,9 @@ struct dma_pool *dma_pool_create(const char *name, struct device *dev,
> > return NULL;
> > }
> >
> > - retval = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*retval), GFP_KERNEL, dev_to_node(dev));
> > + node = WARN_ON(!dev) ? -1 : dev_to_node(dev);
> > +
> > + retval = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*retval), GFP_KERNEL, node);
> > if (!retval)
> > return retval;
> >
>
> Begs the question why we don't just do something like this generically?
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ int dev_set_name(struct device *dev, const char *name, ...);
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> static inline int dev_to_node(struct device *dev)
> {
> - return dev->numa_node;
> + return WARN_ON(!dev) ? NUMA_NO_NODE : dev->numa_node;
> }

WARN and friends can cause quite a lot of code to be generated, so they're
a rather bloat-risky thing to include in a little inlined helper
function.

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